Gunter Senft Libri

This introduction to linguistic pragmatics offers a comprehensive exploration of language use in context, emphasizing a cross-linguistic perspective. It combines accessibility with authoritative insights, making complex concepts understandable for readers. The book delves into how meaning is constructed in communication across different languages, highlighting the interplay between language and context. Ideal for students and enthusiasts, it provides a solid foundation in pragmatics while encouraging a broader understanding of linguistic diversity.

Bronislaw Malinowski asserted that effective ethnographic fieldwork requires a collection of ethnographic statements and documents reflecting native mentality. This book fulfills that demand through over 40 months of field research, showcasing the Trobriand Islanders' indigenous typology of text categories, from children's chants to gossip, songs, tales, and myths. The typology is grounded in Kilivila metalinguistic terms and explores their relationship with various registers distinguished by native speakers. Rooted in the 'ethnography of speaking' and 'anthropological linguistics' paradigms, the work emphasizes the significance of genres in understanding language, culture, and cognition within social interactions, highlighting their role in achieving linguistic and cultural competence. Additionally, readers can access original audio and video data via a dedicated website, allowing them to compare transcriptions with actual recordings. This feature enhances the book’s value for teaching in various linguistic and ethnological disciplines, making it a vital resource for educators and researchers alike.

The series builds an extensive collection of high quality descriptions of languages around the world. Each volume offers a comprehensive grammatical description of a single language together with fully analyzed sample texts and, if appropriate, a word list and other relevant information which is available on the language in question. There are no restrictions as to language family or area, and although special attention is paid to hitherto undescribed languages, new and valuable treatments of better known languages are also included. No theoretical model is imposed on the authors; the only criterion is a high standard of scientific quality. To discuss your book idea or submit a proposal, please contact Birgit Sievert.

Die Arbeit versteht sich als ein Beitrag zur linguistischen Variationsforschung. Sie ist als empirische Arbeit in hohem Mass datenorientiert. Ziel der Arbeit ist, eine sprachliche Varietät, nämlich die von Metallarbeitern aus der südwestdeutschen Stadt Kaiserslautern, durch das Definieren eines Varietätenraums mittels extralinguistischer Variablen zu isolieren und sie phonologisch und - im Schwerpunkt - syntaktisch mithilfe einer probabilistisch bewerteten Grammatik zu beschreiben. Vor dem Hintergrund dieser Beschreibung wird dann im Rahmen einer explorativen Fallstudie versucht, erste Einsichten darüber zu gewinnen, wie diese Varietät in bestimmten Bereichen sozial bewertet wird.